Burn Management

The American Burn Association reports the following U.S. incidence and treatment facts:

500,000 people seek burn medical treatment annually.
4,000 fire-related burn deaths are reported annually.
25,000 - over 60% of the 40,000 annual burn injury hospitalizations - are admitted into one of the 125 hospitals with specialized burn centers.

The WoundExpert Burn Management software supports a multidisciplinary team approach to optimize the quality of burn patient care. This type of clinical approach is supported with the ability to document various treatment modalities such as Occupational and Physical Therapy, Respiratory, Dietary and Social Services. WoundExpert ensures initial assessment accuracy of the burn size and depth, while providing ongoing monitoring throughout the healing and rehabilitation process.

Our Burn Management offering supports the comprehensive electronic documentation, outcomes tracking, benchmarking and reporting capabilities particular to the needs of specialized burn centers across the U.S.

Key Features Include:

Burn Assessment and History
WoundExpert facilitates accurate assessment of burns and grafts along with customized procedure screens for debridement and graft applications. WoundExpert supports the result entry for overall burn measurement tools utilized by burn centers across the industry. Finally, all burn history is captured to augment national burn registry database tracking and reporting.

Therapy Plans and Goals
The goal of burn treatment is to reintegrate the patient into the community. Working towards this goal means that the tasks of the burn care treatment team are broadened well beyond wound closure. An active focus on long-term rehabilitation goals must be part of the treatment plan from the onset of care.

Our Burn Management offering seamlessly integrates with WoundExpert’s comprehensive clinical and physician documentation from initial assessment, plan of care and treatment, including short and long term goals. WoundExpert encompasses the broader needs of the burn patient which are inclusive of rehabilitation, reconstruction, and reintegration into the community.

Scar Assessment and Management
Since scar formation is the normal process of wound healing in deep partial-thickness burns, WoundExpert provides the ability to assess and identify scar complications, improving the accuracy of subjective scar assessment and management.

Pain Assessment and Management
Given the severity of specialized burn center patient complications and treatments, the pain associated with burn injury and treatment is often poorly assessed and managed. Typical pain mismanagement – inadequate pain assessment, analgesic-knowledge deficits, and incomplete documentation – is detrimental to burn patients. The difference between continuous background pain and pain due to therapeutic procedures, such as dressing changes, must be evaluated and treated separately.

WoundExpert’s Burn Management offering ensures consistent pain assessment and management is integral with all phases of burn patient care and recovery – from the initial assessment through treatment, rehabilitation and reintegration into the community. WoundExpert optimizes the management and control of burn pain, reducing suffering and the potential for post-traumatic stress disorders.

Improved Communications
Communications with primary care and referring physicians and payers is crucial to assure that patient care is appropriate and fairly reimbursed. This is particularly true for non-emergency and follow-up burn care treatments. WoundExpert’s customized templates ensure communications regarding patient care is clearly and consistently documented. Enhanced communications with all burn patient care stakeholders improves the quality of care delivery and potential for successful rehabilitation, recovery and reintegration into the community.